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JUNTTED STATns PATENT @Trice CHARLES MATHEVS, OF NEV YQRK, N. Y.

SlVlOKlNG-TUBEl Specification forming partof Letters Patent No. @il,973, dated November' 2, 1858.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLEs Miirnnws, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful Compound Smoking-Tube forSmoking Tobacco or other Substances in a Finely-Divided State; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this specilication, in whichf Figure lrepresents an elevation of my compound smokingtube ready for smoking.Fig. 2 is a longitudinal central section of the same. Fig. 3 is anelevation ofthe inner or containing tube. Fig. 4L is an elevation of theouter or drafttube. Fig. 5 is an elevation of the mouth-J piece. Fig. 6is a plan or top view of a piece of paper used in closing up one end ofthe inner or containing tube. Fig. 7 is a plan or top View of myash-pan. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures.

This invention consists in arranging two tubes one inside the other, theouter tube to be provided with a mouth-piece, which consists of a shorttube of thick and firm paper or pasteboard, and the inner tube,whichcontains the tobacco or other substance to be smoked in a iinely-dividedstate, to be closed at the upper end in a peculiar manner, and to titloosely into the outer tube, so as to leave a sufficient space for thesmoke to pass between the tubes up to the mouthpiece.

The invention further consistsin arranging an ash-pan in such a mannerthat it slides on the compound smoking-tube by means of a loop, andwhich is-so constructed that the ashes dropping off from the lighted endof the tube are deposited in the ash-pan without inconvenience to thesmoker.

To enable others to fully understand and construct my invention, l willproceed to describe the same.

rlhe compound smoking-tube A is shown in Fig. l ready for smoking. B isthe ash-pan, which slides on the tube. rlhe construction of the tube isshown in Fig. 2, and detail views of its several parts are shown in theother ngures.

C is the outer or draft tube, constructed out/ o thin paper, and D isthemouth-piecawhich ts into the upper end of the draft-tube @,and isconstructed of thick and lirm paper or pasteboard, being about one andthree-fourths or two inches long. The mouthpiece lits closely into thedraft-tube, so as to leave no other passage for the smoke but throughthe centralopening oi the same.

E is the inner or containing tube, constructed also of ,thin paper, andfitting loosely into the draft-tube Q, seas to leave a passage for thesmoke between the two tubes, as shown in Fig. 2. The upper end of thistube Eis c'l-esed up by a piece o1" paper, F, a plan or top View ofwhich is shown at Fig. 6. The shape of this paper is such that the endof the tubeis chainfered off on two sides, so that when lthe tube E isplaced within the draft-tube C the upper end of the same does not coverup entirely the central opening of the mouth-piece. By thisarrangementthc draft is considerably facilitated.

It must be remarked that the inner tube, E, is of such aiength that thesame,when inserted into the draft-tube C, with its closed end forward,sliding into the same until stopped by the inner end ofthe mouth-piece,proj ects withits open end a little beyond the draft-tube. The innertube, E, is now charged with nely-cut tobacco or other substance in afinely-divided state, the end of the tube is twisted, as shown in Fig.l, and the cpmpound smoking-tuleis then ready for consumption. "W henlighted, the ashes from the tubes drop off very readily, and in order toovercome a great inconvenience arising from this sourcelhave constructedan ash-pan. This is shown in Fig. 1 as applied to the compoundsmoking-tube, and also shown detached in Figs. 7 and 8. The ash-panconsists :of a cup, G, rather widerthan the diameter of thecompoundtubeand'a'loop, 4

H, is attached to the cup, of such a size that it slides readily ou thetube A. l/Vhen applied tothetube, the ashes droppingfrom the lighted endof the same are deposited in the cup G; and it will be understood thatit is necessary as the ltube is consumed to bring the loop l-Lnear 1 tothe mouth-piece, which latter is at the same time protected b'y the loopfrombeingburned.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, isl l l. Arranging the tubes C and E with themouth-piece D in such relation to each other that they form a compoundsmoking-tube for smoking tobacco or other substance in a linely-divdedstate7 the Whole being Constructed and arranged as specified.

2. Closing the upper end of the tube E in sueh a manner that the same,when inserted into the draft-tube G and brought close up to the innerend of .the mouth-piece D7 leaves a sufficient space for the passage ofthe-smoke up through the oentral'opening of the mouthpiece, asdescribed.

3. Constructing an ash-pan in such a manner the saule slides on thecompound smokingtube by means of a loop7 H, 'so that the ashes droppingfrom the lighted end of the tube are deposited in theash-pan,s11bstantially as specifred.

CHARLES MATHEVS.

Witnesses:

HENRY T. BROWN, W. HAUFF.

